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Raspberry season

By Anna Sawin

Well, I will go out on a very long limb and say that I think summer might finally have arrived in New England. It’s been a long time coming, so naturally, we’ve been soaking it all in, since you never know when it might leave. (Or when you might have HAIL or FLOODS or some…

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Brandy + Kim: Married

By Anna Sawin

This Florida couple decided to gather up their loved ones from around the country and make an extended family vacation out of their destination wedding in beautiful Provincetown, MA on Cape Cod. I would say these brides were extremely relaxed and mostly concerned with A) each other B) their marriage and C) having a small…

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Food Friday: Fabulous Housewives and a Champagne Dinner for Eight

By Anna Sawin

Who needs to be real housewives when you can be fabulous ones? A few brilliant and creative friends, (including Lucinda Wesson of creative design studio True & Wesson) recently engineered a send-off to a friend leaving our staid New England shores for sunny Florida. The send-off involved, among other things, a can of hairspray, seven…

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Preview: Brayden and family

By Anna Sawin

Meet Baby Brayden, who isn’t really a baby anymore. He arrived in a big hurry two years ago, deciding he needed to check out where mom worked (she’s part of Henry’s NICU dream team). He also derailed mom and dad’s attempts to see a Red Sox vs. Yankees game in person with his early arrival…

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Thinking you can’t possibly be three

By Anna Sawin

Uh, wrote most of this on his birthday last week, but now he is three and one week, just for those of you keeping track. Dear Henry, Today you are three, and all day long I was shocked when I saw you. Tall, lanky and so darn THREE, and I just have no idea how…

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Nikki + Rick: Married (slideshow)

By Anna Sawin

I just LOVED this couple, who traveled from their home in Colorado to enjoy a beautiful and sunny (one of the few this spring!) day on Cape Cod. Days before the wedding we were talking, and I said something like, “It can’t possibly rain any more, it has been raining for three weeks straight now!”…

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Strawberries and turning three

By Anna Sawin

I guess Henry must have taken a nap last year on his birthday for me to have written all this and posted it on his birthday. Will picked every one of these himself, stopping to ask, “Is this a good one?” after EACH ONE. Today, I’m fielding requests of “Can I have another strawberry?” (Can…

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Antonia + Bill: Married (Slideshow)

By Anna Sawin

A full blog post coming later this week, but for the time being, you can access your slide show here, Antonia & Bill! Happy love!

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Happy birthday, Elias!

By Anna Sawin

Wishing a happy birthday to one of our favorite five-year-olds today! (This was on a “whale watch” at nursery school yesterday—looks like he sighted something good.)

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Why I didn’t cry this morning

By Anna Sawin

Today is the last day of Will’s nursery school, a day to be topped on the emotional Richter scale of parenting only by the actual nursery school closing ceremonies later this week. (For example, they’ve been raising caterpillars who have JUST emerged as butterflies from their cocoons this morning and will be ready to fly…

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